Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But Mas-Colell is hardly representative of the traditional FAS administrator. A relative newcomer to Harvard, Mas-Colell has never held an administrative post--even within the Economics Department.
TO understand what the Verba committee set out to do and why the process was a failure, we should go back to the first meeting at which representatives of MSA expressed to Dean Spence their concern regarding Harvard's embarrassingly low number of minority faculty members. Spence said that his...
...responsibility would be to effect change from the inside. The second part was that these representatives would meet as a group, forming a Standing Committee of the Faculty on Affirmative Action, which would evaluate all the departments. These first two elements would be the key to establishing the needed departmental accountability. An assistant dean (the third part) would chair this committee and coordinate its actions. The members of the MSA believed this was a step in the right direction...
BUT the big surprise came when the Faculty Council, after a few weeks of closed meetings, decided that the first two recommendations (the department representatives and the standing committee) would not work, and refused to bring them up to a vote of the full Faculty.
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne...